Pageants innocent on 'reality' scale

10:54 PM,
Jun. 25, 2013

Written by

Jim Leonhirth

During the past few days, snippets of television fare have included a 1997 film, "Crowned and Dangerous," and the 2013 Miss Tennessee pageant in Jackson.

Ostensibly a murder mystery, "Crowned and Dangerous," which dealt with the rivalries, apparently sometimes fatal, between beauty pageant contestants and their mothers, was also a parody of the beauty pageant culture.

In her pre-Oscar days, actress Sandra Bullock starred in two "Miss Congeniality" films in 2000 and 2005 that were also beauty pageant parodies. ...